Yoonmyung Lee

Yoonmyung Lee

Contact Information:

2435 EECS
1301 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
[email protected]

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Research Interest:

mm3-scale sensor system design 
Low power low voltage eDRAM / SRAM 
Low power timer 
Near/sub-threshold circuit design

Current Research:

– Ultra-low power gate-leakage based timer 
  For mm3-scale wireless sensor nodes, where only ~nW of power budget is available for year-long system lifetime, accurate synchronization cycle time measurement is required for low-energy radio communication. A multi-stage gate-leakage based timer reduces rms jitter by 8.1× and synchronization uncertainty by 4.1× with 660pW power consumption. With temperature compensation, effective temperature sensitivity is reduced to 31ppm/°C. 
– M3 = Michigan Micro-Mote 
An 1.0mm3 general-purpose sensor node platform with heterogeneous multi-layer structure is developed to realize the ‘smart dust vision’ originally envisioned by Kris Pister. The node has low power I2C inter-layer communication and ultra-low power optical wakeup receiver. The system also includes two processors, power management unit with brown-out detection, timer, temperature sensor, and low-power imager. Standby power of the system was only ~10nW.